Tag: Sekou Toure

WHEN A GOVERNMENT FAILS TO DO ITS HOME-WORK By CAMERON DUODU There are certain clichés that never seem to lose their evocative power, no matter how often they are pressed into service. ` One is that “nations have no permanent friends or allies, only permanent interests.” Actually, what the man credited with being the …

R.I.P. FOOTBALL KING EUSEBIO! By CAMERON DUODU In the annals of colonialism, the Portuguese were as bad as it gets. Next to the Boers in South Africa and the British in the Rhodesias, they treated their African subjects as little better than beasts of burden. Africans in …